So many Democrats turned out in Stratham that Town Clerk Shirley Daley said she had to photocopy 87 ballots. Hartson said she began printing extra Democratic ballots at 6 p.m. when they began running low. Because of a glitch in the machines, clerks there had to hand count all of the extra ballots.

Gideon follows up by asking: "They had to hand-count all of the extra ballots. What about the ballots that had already been run on the machines (note the plural)? How many other machines across the state had the same 'glitch'?"

We tried to contact Town Clerk Daley on Friday, in order to find out, what came of the ballots counted before the problem was discovered, but their offices close at 12noon on Fridays.

As to further such incidents across the state, it seems there were far more than anyone has so far reported. We will have another article shortly, concerning such reports of problems on Diebold voting machine across the state during last week's Primary Election. 80% of New Hampshire votes were counted on such machines. To date, none of those ballots have been counted, verified or audited by any human being to our knowledge.

UPDATE 9:56pm As promised, further reports on problems with voting machines in other NH towns, now published here...

An electronic voting machine that requires the poll workers to just count the ballots by hand...

Sounds like it's a "feature" and not a "glitch".

I wonder how much it would cost to get 3 to 5 voting machines of this calliber in every precinct across the country, so the machines can sit in the back of the room while the poll workers count the ballots by hand?

Yes, this is good news if:
1. the original ballots were indeed numbered.
2. the photo copied ballots have the same number.
3. the photo copied ballots were not included in the machine counted totals (it was either hand or machine counted totals).
4. the chain of custody has not been interrupted.
5. sufficient funds can be raised for the recount.

Question does the democratic and republican challengers each have to raise $65,000. or is that cost split between the two?

If each scanned ballot had a unique number assigned to it,then there could not be photocopied ballots. Photocopying ballots is a red flag for election fraud.

Not in NH. It's a good procedure that they have in place if paper ballots run out. They are to use Absentee ballots, and if they run out, they go to photocopied ballots. As I reported on the afternoon of the election when the disinfo reports were coming out of the media (beginning with Drudge apparently) suggesting ballots had run out in the morning, as if to suggest that wouldn't have happened on touch-screens, for example.

Jean Binder -

Recounts, of both the D and R Primaries are to begin on Wednesday, according to the NH SoS website. Counting the whole state will take "days to weeks" according to a NH paper.

If you need any more proof that they are cheating in your mind, just look at the spin they're putting on this and not reporting the actual problems that are going on, they always seem to show up here when we get too close.
And why is it that all of the dis-info always seems to come from the Corporate MSM and these so called Conservative web sites and now some so called Librul web sites ?

They are the masters of illusion as Karl said "we create our own reality now"

Just that alone should set off alarm bells for all of you doubting Thomas's out there

Can we therefore assume that all states using Diebold optical scan machines programmed by LHS will not be using numbered scan ballots?

I am guessing that LHS is also supplying the ballots to be scanned.

This would essentially mean that all of New England would be in the same boat as NH with the disadvantage of not being able to compare hand counted districts with machine counted districts thus further compromising any possible recounts in those states.

This is not about Candidate A winning or Candidate B losing. This is solely about the hackable, unsecure voting machines (optical scan in NH) that have been investigated and proven to be crap and yet are still deployed to count the majority of elections in this country.

Whenever and wherever there is a discrepancy with electronic voting machines involved --- no matter how big or small the race, no matter if it's Repub or Dem --- Voting Integrity advocates look into it. It's what they do.

Please do not assume or assign motives, intentions or conclusions to anyone here that are not EXPLICITLY stated. Brad makes crystal clear that he doesn't care who won or lost, just that the results are ACCURATE. Period.

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